Up Up and a Koopa Episode Guide

The Adventures of Super Mario Bros. 3 Episode 21 – Up Up and a Koopa

In Toad's house, Toad is in the middle of cooking some food on his oven, which, after some stirring, he places in a bowl and gives to the nearby Princess Toadstool. Taking the bowl of food from Toad, Princess Toadstool glances at it and says to Toad that she thought he was going to make her some bran; after saying this, the Princess gets the response from Toad that he was out of bran, but he did have some hay. As Toad explains this, Mario and Luigi, who are nearby, say that at least Toad's pancakes look edible and light and proceed to begin to eat the pancakes. As Mario and Luigi eat the pancakes, everything in Toad's house begins to rise to the house's ceiling, including Mario, Luigi, Toad and Princess Toadstool. Watching as his furniture crashes into the roof of his ceiling, Toad accidentally bangs his head on the ceiling and begins to wonder what is going on.

Outside, the Doomship of King Koopa is flying through the air rapidly, blasting everything below it with a beam of light, with everything that is hit by the beam of light floating upwards. Onboard the Doomship, Koopa, along with Kooky von Koopa, are overseeing the havoc they are wreaking in Mushroom Land, with Koopa saying the Kooper-Dooper Raiser-Upper the Doomship is using is working perfectly and that soon, the Raiser-Upper will raise everything in Mushroom Land up to Sky Land; after Koopa announces all of this, Kooky goes on to say that he and Koopa also have Emperor Ed, the ruler of Sky Land, locked in a cage on the Doomship. Nearby, Emperor Ed, who is being guarded by a Rocky Wrench, begins to try to threaten Koopa and Kooky, saying that once his subjects discover he has been captured, they will revolt against them. Ed is ignored, and quieted by his Rocky Wrench jailer. Koopa and Kooky continue to blast everything below the Doomship with the Raiser-Upper.

Down below, everything in Mushroom Land is continuing to rise into the air as Mario, Luigi, and Princess Toadstool, who are still inside Toad's house, look onward, confused. Elsewhere, on the Doomship, King Koopa, becoming somewhat impatient, decides to increase the power of the Kooper-Dooper Raiser-Upper; not hearing Kooky's objections, Koopa raises a switch on the device, causing it to malfunction and overload. As the Raiser-Upper shakes hazardously, the Doomship begins to rock back and forth, causing the cage Emperor Ed is in to fall over and be dumped out of a porthole of the Doomship. Sent tumbling through the air, Ed manages to safely land on a bed which was hit by the Raiser-Upper and after grabbing a nearby, rising teddy bear, crawls under the blankets of the bed, which is now descending to the ground.

Onboard the Doomship, Kooky is alerting Koopa to the fact that Emperor Ed is gone and begins to get into an argument with him about how he wrecked his Kooper-Dooper Raiser-Upper. Irritated by Kooky, Koopa angrily commands Kooky repair the Raiser-Upper. Down below, everything the Raiser-Upper had made rise into the air is beginning to be lowered. Walking out of Toad's house, Mario, Luigi, Princess Toadstool, and Toad begin to look around, with Mario wondering why everything had floated up into the air, only for Toad to reply that whatever the reason, at least it is over now. However, as Toad says this, the bed suddenly falls from the sky and Emperor Ed bounces out of it, landing on Toad.

Trivia & Bloopers

The opening title screen for this episode is the sky portion of Sky Land, but the ground portion music plays instead.
At the beginning of the episode, the camera zooms towards the ground instead of Toad's house.
When Toad gives Princess Toadstool a bowl of hay, the syrup on Mario and Luigi's pancakes is the same color as the pancakes. This also occurs when Mario reminds Luigi about breakfast at the end of the episode, though the former's pancakes are missing. In the following shot, the plates the pancakes are on change from yellow to pink. They revert back to their original color when everything begins to rise to the ceiling.
When Luigi shoves his pancakes into his mouth, the syrup on them is missing.